Commentary
California
California’s Public Retiree Health Care Liabilities
Although we have no time for Governor Schwarzenegger’s California Health Deforminator Model ABX1 1, we’re sure glad he struck a commission to get a handle on the state’s public sector retiree health benefits. You know all that talk about how retiree health benefits are sinking the Big 3 Detroit automakers, ...
Commentary
2008: Next Steps for Health Savings Accounts
HSAs are still young, but they are part of a burgeoning reform movement called consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which is proving to lower costs and encourage responsible behavior among Americans seeking to save more money for health care. Our previous briefing on consumer choice insurance anticipated that 2008 would be ...
California
California’s Affluent Schools Ooze Corruption
UGotNerve, August 14, 2008 Human Events, January 8, 2008 When middle-class parents in California opened their newspapers recently and read that the leviathan Los Angeles Unified School District had overpaid their employees by $53 million, many likely took comfort in the belief that at least the school districts in their ...
Commentary
Buying drugs online can present risks
Millions of Americans will look to weight-loss drugs to help them keep their New Year’s resolution to slim down. And if they can’t get a prescription from a doctor, many will go online to purchase the pills from foreign distributors. But beware: Most of these Web sites are glossed-up fakes ...
California
Reality Check in Aisle 3: Safeway Has No Place In California’s Health Reform Debate
Perhaps the most hypocritical element of California Health Deforminator Model ABX1 1, the deal forged between Gov. Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Nuñez, is the omnipresence of Safeway CEO Steve Burd at the governor’s side whenever he talks up the so-called “reform”. Mr. Burd has become the governor’s number one corporate ...
Commentary
Waiver Denial: All Pain or All Gain?
On December 19, the federal government denied California a waiver to impose vehicle standards more stringent than national standards under a law passed five years ago, Assembly Bill 1493. The gambit is another example of California’s counterproductive energy policy, heavy on government intervention. California has set climate policy goals to ...
Commentary
Ethnicity-Obsessed UC Ignores Law
In 2008 the University of California will increase the number of officially recognized Asian categories from eight to 23, nearly a three-fold increase. UC administrators and various student groups hail the move as a milestone of diversity and aid to outreach. That remains dubious but the plan confirms that the ...
California
Healthy San Francisco Access Plan: Mostly Illegal, Popularity Dwindling
At the end of last year, a federal judge ruled that the San Francisco Health Access Plan’s “pay or play” mandate (that employers provide health benefits or pay a tax of $1.17 to $1.76 per hour per worker) violated ERISA (the Employee Retirement Income Security Act) and tossed it out. ...
Commentary
California Sues EPA Regarding Greenhouse Gas Emissions
EPA stresses national solution to national issue (Chicago, Illinois – January 3, 2008) On Wednesday, January 2, California, along with 15 other states, sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging EPA unlawfully rejected California’s request to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions more stringently than national standards. Attorney Generals vs the ...
Business & Economics
KGO-AM Radio: Josh Treviño’s interview with Ronn Owens – California’s Top 10 Policy Blunders of 2007
KGO-AM Radio Interview: The Ronn Owen’s Show – PRI’s Josh Treviño is interviewed regarding “California’s Top 10 Policy Blunders of 2007.” KGO-AM Radio – Ronn Owens Show, San Francisco, January 2, 2008 PRI’s Josh Treviño is interviewed regarding “California’s Top 10 Policy Blunders of 2007.”
California’s Public Retiree Health Care Liabilities
Although we have no time for Governor Schwarzenegger’s California Health Deforminator Model ABX1 1, we’re sure glad he struck a commission to get a handle on the state’s public sector retiree health benefits. You know all that talk about how retiree health benefits are sinking the Big 3 Detroit automakers, ...
2008: Next Steps for Health Savings Accounts
HSAs are still young, but they are part of a burgeoning reform movement called consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which is proving to lower costs and encourage responsible behavior among Americans seeking to save more money for health care. Our previous briefing on consumer choice insurance anticipated that 2008 would be ...
California’s Affluent Schools Ooze Corruption
UGotNerve, August 14, 2008 Human Events, January 8, 2008 When middle-class parents in California opened their newspapers recently and read that the leviathan Los Angeles Unified School District had overpaid their employees by $53 million, many likely took comfort in the belief that at least the school districts in their ...
Buying drugs online can present risks
Millions of Americans will look to weight-loss drugs to help them keep their New Year’s resolution to slim down. And if they can’t get a prescription from a doctor, many will go online to purchase the pills from foreign distributors. But beware: Most of these Web sites are glossed-up fakes ...
Reality Check in Aisle 3: Safeway Has No Place In California’s Health Reform Debate
Perhaps the most hypocritical element of California Health Deforminator Model ABX1 1, the deal forged between Gov. Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Nuñez, is the omnipresence of Safeway CEO Steve Burd at the governor’s side whenever he talks up the so-called “reform”. Mr. Burd has become the governor’s number one corporate ...
Waiver Denial: All Pain or All Gain?
On December 19, the federal government denied California a waiver to impose vehicle standards more stringent than national standards under a law passed five years ago, Assembly Bill 1493. The gambit is another example of California’s counterproductive energy policy, heavy on government intervention. California has set climate policy goals to ...
Ethnicity-Obsessed UC Ignores Law
In 2008 the University of California will increase the number of officially recognized Asian categories from eight to 23, nearly a three-fold increase. UC administrators and various student groups hail the move as a milestone of diversity and aid to outreach. That remains dubious but the plan confirms that the ...
Healthy San Francisco Access Plan: Mostly Illegal, Popularity Dwindling
At the end of last year, a federal judge ruled that the San Francisco Health Access Plan’s “pay or play” mandate (that employers provide health benefits or pay a tax of $1.17 to $1.76 per hour per worker) violated ERISA (the Employee Retirement Income Security Act) and tossed it out. ...
California Sues EPA Regarding Greenhouse Gas Emissions
EPA stresses national solution to national issue (Chicago, Illinois – January 3, 2008) On Wednesday, January 2, California, along with 15 other states, sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging EPA unlawfully rejected California’s request to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions more stringently than national standards. Attorney Generals vs the ...
KGO-AM Radio: Josh Treviño’s interview with Ronn Owens – California’s Top 10 Policy Blunders of 2007
KGO-AM Radio Interview: The Ronn Owen’s Show – PRI’s Josh Treviño is interviewed regarding “California’s Top 10 Policy Blunders of 2007.” KGO-AM Radio – Ronn Owens Show, San Francisco, January 2, 2008 PRI’s Josh Treviño is interviewed regarding “California’s Top 10 Policy Blunders of 2007.”
